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Stats and draft position-wise, Dietrich seems like a decent prospect, but you'd think at $5 million per, for up to 3 years (your choice), Yuni would have more excess value than that. Surprised the A's, D-Backs, or other team with a SS need couldn't beat it.

I still don't understand how people think Escobar's bat is going to play at 3b. His OPS+ last year was only *75* and for the last three years its 89. By movnig him to third, you give up a good portion of his defensive value, and he doesn't add much value on the basepaths.

So they are down to one player making over $2 million and 5 more making over $1 million. Could the Yankees even field a lineup (9 hitters plus starting pitcher) with just one guy over $2 million without doing tons of callups?

Just noticed, if Nolasco is traded then their highest expenses will be the $8.5 mil sent to Toronto and the $4 mil sent to pay Health Bell. For 2014 and beyond they now are committed to just another $4 mil for Bell and $1.5 for Jeff Mathis.

Just noticed, if Nolasco is traded then their highest expenses will be the $8.5 mil sent to Toronto and the $4 mil sent to pay Health Bell. For 2014 and beyond they now are committed to just another $4 mil for Bell and $1.5 for Jeff Mathis.

The Jays have 18 guys over $2 million for 2013 thus just 7 slots for sub-$2 mil guys (maybe), plus $1.5 for always hurt Dustin McGowan. The Jays last winter gave out a 2 year $3 million deal to an injured pitcher who they thought might be useful if healthy (ie: lottery ticket). For the Marlins that would be a franchise player deal now.

The Yankees have 3 over $20 million, and 6 more over $10 million. 4 more are expected to crack $2 mil in arbitration (B-R). Just 13 guys over $2 million - geez, they are getting cheap as they might have 12 sub-$2 mil. That still leaves the Yankees with as many making $20 mil+ as the Marlins have making $1.6 mil+

If I'm reading Cot's correctly, the Marlins on-field payroll for next year is currently $21 million. That's only 7 players under contract, so they need to fill in 18 contracts. But of those 18, only one, Ryan Webb is even arb eligible. And that's just first year arbitration to boot. Let's say the Marlins are generous and give the 17 $500,000, and Webb gets $1 million.

That gives them a $30 million payroll. The lowest payroll last season was the Padres $55 million, you have to go back to 2008 to find a payroll that low. Would Selig even let them go that low?

Toronto threw the idea around, and TFA states "He said he was comfortable playing third base." I doubt he just volunteered to play third for the hell of it.

I don't know why I'm being so nit-picky, but the Jays never played him at 3rd for a single inning, the Marlins traded him rather than doing that, and the Rays obviously are planning for him at SS and Longoria at 3B.

If I'm reading Cot's correctly, the Marlins on-field payroll for next year is currently $21 million. That's only 7 players under contract, so they need to fill in 18 contracts. But of those 18, only one, Ryan Webb is even arb eligible. And that's just first year arbitration to boot. Let's say the Marlins are generous and give the 17 $500,000, and Webb gets $1 million.

That gives them a $30 million payroll. The lowest payroll last season was the Padres $55 million, you have to go back to 2008 to find a payroll that low. Would Selig even let them go that low?

Houston is interesting as well. Right now they have $800,000 committed to Mike Pelfrey. Three players are arb eligible (mlbtraderumors estimates), Jed Lowrie (1.9m), Bud Norris (2.9m), Wesley Wright (900k). Assuming all of those go through that's a 22.5m payroll according to BB-Ref.

Has Houston been connected to any free agents? Surely they have to spend some money.

EDIT: I'm a little unsure, but I think that 6mil and 22.5 mil both include the 5m they are paying to Wandy Rodriguez to play elsewhere.

I don't know why I'm being so nit-picky, but the Jays never played him at 3rd for a single inning, the Marlins traded him rather than doing that, and the Rays obviously are planning for him at SS and Longoria at 3B.

Maybe the Marlins just asked him to play third, knowing he'd balk at the idea, thus giving them the excuse they needed to shed his burdensome contract......

Just noticed, if Nolasco is traded then their highest expenses will be the $8.5 mil sent to Toronto and the $4 mil sent to pay Health Bell. For 2014 and beyond they now are committed to just another $4 mil for Bell and $1.5 for Jeff Mathis.

Oh please God let the Marlins highest paid player be Jeff Mathis! How perfect that would be.

Houston is interesting as well. Right now they have $800,000 committed to Mike Pelfrey. Three players are arb eligible (mlbtraderumors estimates), Jed Lowrie (1.9m), Bud Norris (2.9m), Wesley Wright (900k). Assuming all of those go through that's a 22.5m payroll according to BB-Ref.

With the departure this winter of Abad, Bogusevic and Wilton Lopez, the Astros 40-man roster currently contains four players who played for the Astros in 2010.

Cut off their welfare windfalls. Oh, wait, the reason the Marlins can punt whole seasons is because the welfare windfalls make it more profitable to have an empty stadium with an empty payroll than actually pay baseball players to entertain the fans.

Cut off their welfare windfalls. Oh, wait, the reason the Marlins can punt whole seasons is because the welfare windfalls make it more profitable to have an empty stadium with an empty payroll than actually pay baseball players to entertain the fans.

To be fair, the fact that it annoys Yankee fans provides at least some measure of fan entertainment.

I know I'm not the fan I used to be but there might be two or three teams out there next season of whom I couldn't name a single player with 100% certainty and if you started reading off their roster with some made up names thrown in I would have about 0% chance of figuring out real from made up. I'm not sure it's supposed to be this way. There are some real problems with the economics of baseball.

I know I'm not the fan I used to be but there might be two or three teams out there next season of whom I couldn't name a single player with 100% certainty and if you started reading off their roster with some made up names thrown in I would have about 0% chance of figuring out real from made up.

Except more like if I was a Rays fan until about six years ago when they politely asked me to stop coming to games. So now I check the standings every now and then whenever I feel the need to feel awful about myself.

I work with old Crown grants and survey plans from the late 1700's to present, and one of the few joys of my unchallenging job is getting to see all of the funny old names. The most Dickensian so far has been a Mr. Sedgefield McCrumb.

The thought of googling and finding out that a certain ex-girlfriend is happily married is more than enough to keep my morbid curiousity in check. I even have the password to her email account but never looked.

The thought of googling and finding out that a certain ex-girlfriend is happily married is more than enough to keep my morbid curiousity in check. I even have the password to her email account but never looked.

Well...it sounds as if she is happily married you have the means to change that.

Surely MLB is simply preparing for the destruction, via super-hurricanes, of both Miami and Houston in the next few years?

The thought of googling and finding out that a certain ex-girlfriend is happily married is more than enough to keep my morbid curiousity in check. I even have the password to her email account but never looked.

I lived with a girlfriend for a couple years, and I can't think of what possible reason we had, but we routinely used each other's e-mail addresses and other personal information. (I suppose maybe it's handy if you're out and need to call home to check something...though come to think of it neither of us had phones).

Anyway, I suppose we're both lucky that the other person isn't insane.

#48--yeah. Lucky for she and I that I'm sort of sane. Funny--she was a great girlfriend, but a TERRIBLE ex-girlfriend. We stayed in touch, had things to divvy up, and she was awful. A completely different person. Weird, too, since the breakup was more or less amicably arrived at, there was no cheating or chicanery involved (that I knew of, anyway).